distill-memory

distill-memory is a command for Claude Code from helmsman-ai/helmsman-claude-plugin. It costs 50 tokens per session (3,286 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A project-review command that examines project files and suggests updates to the agent’s saved instructions at global, repository, and project levels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after completing a project or during ongoing work to review artifacts and decide which memory files should be updated.
Why use it?
It helps keep saved context accurate after work changes. You approve each suggested update before anything is written.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: arguments in frontmatter.

Part of the helmsman plugin — 12 skills, 14 commands, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it after completing a project or during ongoing work to review artifacts and decide which memory files should be updated.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/helmsman-ai/helmsman-claude-plugin/distill-memory
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/helmsman-ai/helmsman-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install helmsman, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 14 commands, 6 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,286 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00050 $0.03286
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01643
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00657
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00329

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7db18b0573bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

distill-memory scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/distill-memory.md · 311 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

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Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 311 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 7db18b0573bb

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distill-memory is a command published in the GitHub repository helmsman-ai/helmsman-claude-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 3,286 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.